Over the summer, my daughters got their fifth case of head lice in as many years. As the all-too-familiar feelings of dread, shame, and disgust crept in, I scrambled to implement the usual treatment strategies, including warning friends and washing clothes and bedding.
Most critically, I shampooed my kids’ heads with an over-the-counter treatment, and then for a week straight, I combed their hair daily using the comb that came with the shampoo (this comb is meant to pull out lice and their eggs, known as nits).
At the end of the week, things got worse. I found live bugs crawling on my kids’ heads just as we arrived to visit family across the country.
It seemed as if we were doomed to a gross, Groundhog Day existence, where my role was to endlessly pick critters from the heads of my children.
Then I finally found the right tool for the job: the Nit Free Terminator Lice Comb.
As the name suggests, this gizmo is a muscular assassin. Its long, closely spaced teeth pulled nits out of my kids’ hair like nothing I’ve tried before—and I’ve used at least a dozen different nit combs.
